[development] Taxonomy usability improvement: Hierarchy -> Term structure

J-P Stacey jp.stacey at torchbox.com
Thu Nov 15 09:29:27 UTC 2007


+1 also. It gets rid of new terminology of the sort where you have to know 
what it means before you know what it means.

J-P

Liza Sabater wrote:
> HUGE +1 from me too. 
> 
> --------- Original Message --------
> 
>> I was going to say "'Multiple parent' is confusing because it doesn't
>> describe what it currently does". But I decided to give it a try and 
> 
>> be hold ... "single" actually does mean "single
>> parent" and "multiple" "multiple parent".
>>
>> I had always wondered why Taxonomy supported multiple parents  
>> internally, but never exposed that to the UI. But it did. (I  
>> interpreted "single" as a two-layered vocabulary, where you
>> couldn't have a third layer.)
>>
>> So you get a big +1 from me :)
>>
>> Wim Leers  ~  http://wimleers.com/work
>>
>> On Nov 14, 2007, at 22:05 , Robert Douglass wrote:
>>
>> > write a patch): http://drupal.org/node/192242
>> >
>> > It re-words the Hierarchy field from this:
>> >
>> > Hierarchy:
>> > Disabled
>> > Single
>> > Multiple
>> >
>> > to this:
>> >
>> > Term structure:
>> > List
>> > Single parent
>> > Multiple parent
>> >
>> > There is also a patch to work on the whole help text for taxonomy:
>> > http://drupal.org/node/190497
>> >
>> > And a wiki page on g.d.o. where we can discuss the text (since we  
>> > sure as hell don't want to do that on this list):
>> > http://groups.drupal.org/node/7132


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